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DEALINGS WITH THE FIRM OF DOMBEY AND SON,: Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation. [Extra-illustrated].
by DICKENS, Charles; illustrated by BROWNE, H. K.:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Bradbury and Evans., 1848.. First edition. Octavo. Nicely bound in contemporary half purple-brown morocco over purple-brown pebble-grained cloth boards, the spine with six raised bands, ruled in gilt, and with titles in gilt. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and title page and 38 further plates by Halbot Knight Browne (aka 'Phiz'). Extra-illustrated with 12 additional plates by Browne depicting the principal characters of the novel (52 engraved plates in total). Two-line errata page bound in after the list of plates. Lacks half-title. A good copy, the binding square and firm with some marking to the boards and bumping to the corners. The contents with spotting to the plates (as commonly encountered), two plates with a small nick to the edge with neat old paper repairs to the verso, a 2.5cm hole to the bottom of one plate (between pp.564-5) with loss to the caption, 2cm clipped from the head of the printed title page (apparently to remove a previous owner's signature) and with subsequent owner's name in ink, a small chip to the blank bottom-left corner of p.xv, a 3cm tear to p.219, a paper-repaired tear to p.495/6, a few small nicks to some pages at the gutter from the binding process, and the odd mark to the text pages, more so to p.213, are otherwise in good order. The first edition in book form of Dicken's 'Dombey and Son', the novel being originally issued in monthly parts between 1846 and 1848.
An attractive extra-illustrated copy.
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- Bookseller
- Sky Duthie Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1316
- Title
- DEALINGS WITH THE FIRM OF DOMBEY AND SON,
- Author
- DICKENS, Charles; illustrated by BROWNE, H. K.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Bradbury and Evans.
- Date Published
- 1848.
- Keywords
- Literature|Bindings
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Following a period in academia focusing on the history of ideas and after several years working for a prominent rare bookseller, the business was established in 2022 by Dr Sky Duthie.
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- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
- Raised Band(s)
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- First Edition
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Gilt
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